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Home — Field: 20CRv3 500mb height

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20CRv3 500mb height
more information mean Daily NOAA/CIRES/DOE 20th Century Reanalysis V3
X axis: whole world in 360 1.00° steps, first point at 0.00° E, last point at 359.00° E
Y axis: regular grid with 181 1.00° steps, first point at 90.00° S, last point at 90.00° N
Z at 500.00 millibar air_pressure
1-daily data available from 01Jan1836 to 31Dec2015 ( 65880 times)
Variable hgt (daily mean 3-hourly Geopotential Height on Pressure Levels) in m
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
helpApply daily high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value days
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -day running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of 500mb height
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Area with extremes
Compute area with annual -day average minimum or maximum extreme beyond 1 in 10 yr return values.

Compute zonal mean

Compute annual cycle
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If you really want to get it here, 20CRv3 500mb height is available as a netcdf file (size 7013.89 MB).
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